Moore became a national celebrity in evangelical circles in 1994 when the ACLU sued him, trying to get the Etowah County judge to stop praying in court and to take down his hand-made Ten Commandments plaque. "I first met him 1996," Wishnatsky said. "He came to Fargo to speak at a banquet for a Christian maternity home.
Jaffe, in an interview with AL.com, had said he wasn't sure he was the attorney she was referring to, and that he had never handled cases for Roy Moore, only his son. Jaffe said he was offended by Kayla Moore's reference to a Jewish attorney. Kayla Moore today explained why she made that reference. "We read where we were against Jews - even calling ...
He remains an admirer of Roy Moore and believes his bid for the U.S. Senate was politically sabotaged by opponents who made allegations of improper sexual conduct against him. "The character assassination orchestrated against him was critical," Wishnatsky said. He said he doesn't believe the accusations were credible.
Kayla Moore, the wife of Alabama's Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, tried to defend her husband from accusations of anti-Semitism on Monday night by pointing out that one of their attorneys in Jewish.
Matthew Rozsa is a staff writer for Salon. He holds an MA in History from Rutgers University-Newark and is ABD in his PhD program in History at Lehigh University. His work has appeared in Mic, Quartz and MSNBC.